STANDING BY THE SHORE,LOOKING OUT INTO THE SEA...IN MY MIND IMAGES OF SLAVE SHIPS I BEGIN TO SEE..WHITE MEN CAPTURING AFRICANS UPON THEIR AFRICAN SAND. .FORCING THEM INTO A SHIP'S CARGO HOLE,LEAVING THEIR AFRICAN LAND..MEN,WOMEN AND CHILDREN,CHAINED,SHACKLED CONFINED...A WAY TO ESCAPE AND FLEE IN THEIR MIND...DIFFERENT PLACES IN AFRICA THEY ARE FROM. DIFFERENT TRIBES EACH WITH A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE TONGUE...FROM THE CARGO HOLE,AFRICAN SLAVES FORCED UPON THE SHIP'S DECK.SLAVE CAPTIVES WITH CHAINS SHACKLES ON THEIR WRIST,ANKLES AND NECK.LUCIFER HIMSELF THE CAPTAIN ON THE SLAVE SHIP..JOYFULLY BEATING THE SLAVES WITH HIS WHIP..SLAVES THROWN OVERBOARD DAY AND DARK.BOUNTIFUL FEAST,THE SLAVE SHIPS FOLLOWED BY SHARKS..AND THE SLAVES ON SUNKEN SLAVE SHIPS,DO THE SOULS OF THOSE SLAVES WITH THE OCEAN MOAN/ DO THEY WANDER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN DEEP,OR DID THEY FIND AWAY BACK TO THEIR AFRICAN HOME////SLAVE SHIP ARRIVES TO AMERICA,SLAVES FORCED OFF,THEIR PEOPLE THEY DO NOT SEE,NOT HEARING SOUNDS OF TRIBAL DRUMS,ELPHANTS OR THE LIONS ROAR...UNKNOWN TO THEM THE HELL THAT AWAITS THEM ON THIS STRANGE AND DISTANT SHORE.../.....

IN THE 1921' THERE WAS BLACK WALL STREET IN TULSA OKLAHOMA... IN CHICAGO YEARS AGO THERE WAS A VERSION OF BLACK WALL STREET.HOW WAS IT DONE YEARS AGO, BLACK UNITY, BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE T O DO NOW.//////BLACK COMMUNITIES, BUSINESSES HAVING UNITY........

I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE SLAVES AT CHRISTMAS TIME. I READ THAT HARRIET TUBMAN HELPED HER BROTHERS ESCAPE AT CHRISTMAS TIME..THEIR SLAVE MASTER WAS PLANNING TO SELL THEM.AFTER CHRISTMAS.SOME SLAVES BELIEVED CHRISTMAS WAS A TIME OF HOPE, TO SOME A CHANCE TO ESCAPE..SOME SLAVE OWNERS ALLOWED THE SLAVES TO PICK OUT A YULE LOG TO BURN .THE HOLIDAY ENDED WHEN THE LOG BURNED OUT...THE HOUSE SLAVES GOT MORE WORK AT CHRISTMAS TIME..... SLAVE MUSICIANS PLAYED INSTRUMENTS,SOME INSTRUMENTS THEY MADE....SOME SLAVES PRACTICED A CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE CALLED JONKONNU.CHRISTMAS TO SLAVES WAS A TIME FOR SPIRITUAL FREEDOM.SLAVES DEVELOPED THEIR OWN STYLE OF RELIGIOUS SONGS, CALLED SPIRITUALS.....SOME SLAVES ATTENDED RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS.CONTROLLED BY THE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS SLAVE OWNERS DENOMINATIONS,BAPTIST AND METHODIST....RELIGION IS A FORM OF WHITE SUPREMACY.BLACK CHURCH CONTROLLED BY THE WHITE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICIANS..............HAS NOT STOPPED....